2006-08-25 09:35:29 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
EVERYTHING! even the ugly is beautiful. i am a one year breast cancer survivor. life is beautiful to me in so many ways. think of the alternative to not having life.
2006-08-25 09:44:03 · answer #1 · answered by suthrnbelle63 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I do not wonder.
I take a look around everyday, and I see beautiful things everywhere. Bad things happen to alot of good people. I understand that. What I also understand, is that we have to look past those bad times. We also live in a materialistic world. People rely on "things" to make them happy. Money being the main thing.
What if everybody, just once a day, looked past the materialistic things and bad times?
1). Have you ever seen the smile of a newborn baby?
2). Have you ever looked up at the stars in the sky?
3). Have you smelled a rose in bloom?
4). Have you ever seen an old couple hold hands?
5). Have you seen a butterfly on the bush?
6). Have a watched a sunrise lately?
7). Have you ever smiled at long lost memories?
See, I never have to wonder what is so beautiful about life. These 7 things and so much more, make all of life beautiful.
So, the next time you run into someone who wonders what is so beautiful about life, just share these examples.
2006-08-25 13:38:56 · answer #2 · answered by Dorie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
If your "beholder" is broken, everything will be in pieces, cracked, smelly and spoiled. You will see pain, car wrecks, arrests, wars, rotten food, and bombings, and little else to relieve the suffering.
If your beholder is working, you can see the treats life has in store for you. A child's laugh, splashing water, kittens wrestling, sunsets to take your breath away, a shiney car, a cool touch, your grandmother's cookies baking-- a thousand reminders of the wonders of life.
Both of these are "true." There is a balance there somewhere.
Buddha says" all life is suffering." True--we will get sick, old and all of us will die. Fact! No escape.
That doesn't mean we have to give up now, and jump off a bridge.
On the contrary, it is important to use the short time you DO have to make the world a better place, to relieve the suffering of someone and use your gifts.
Do that and you won't have time for whining.
2006-08-31 04:00:55 · answer #3 · answered by Lottie W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we didn't have some concept of beauty, we would not recognize pain, sorrow, or injustice. We would simply accept these things as the status quo. Because we taste the sweetness in life, we also know the bitter.
I know that life is filled with painful moments. Most have seen friends and loved ones disappear to death We have been hurt or manipulated by people who we trusted. We feel pain.
But joy also exists. Beauty exists. Maybe it is in upholding a silly tradition like picking apples in October, or shooting off holiday crackers and wearing a crown in December. Maybe it's in making a friend, or in sharing a laugh with a stranger. Maybe it's in a smile that lightens a heavy day, or a kind word. Maybe it's in the smell of a newborn's head, or a dog wagging it's tale just for you as you enter your front door. It's there in something of beauty for each person.
I remember someone saying, "it is better to feel sadness and joy than feel nothing at all. Depression is not sadness, it is feeling nothing, being numb."
The beauty of life is we feel. If you can't recognize it, reach out. It is there.
2006-08-30 08:30:14 · answer #4 · answered by Kindred 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the journey. It's not the destination. It helps if you stop looking around to find it and spend more time actually living. Typically my experience has been that life is most wonderful when life is "hardest". "They were the best of times, they were the worst of times" - that's what that means. When I was a rock singer without a pot to piss in and pretty much starving all the time, those were some of my fondest, best memories. Now I'm married, have a wonderful wife, two beautiful little girls, and they drive me outta my mind with aggravation - all three of them. And you know what? Life's never been better. It's about the journey. One day you'll sit down to catch your breath and wipe the sweat from your forehead, take a look up at the sky and think to yourself "I've arrived. Life is wonderful." It's in the living, not in the looking. God bless you.
2006-08-25 09:41:55 · answer #5 · answered by rocken_heimer 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes I do, when I'm low and nothing seems to turn out as I expected...And at that time I feel that it's a mere tragedy that I was born and 'living' this life is a pain...
But no, unless we don't experience the sad side of life, we cannot appreciate the 'beauty' of life...
Think about it!
2006-08-25 13:06:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. All I have to do is open my eyes and I see the beauty in life all around me, so I've never really had to wonder, or question.
2006-08-25 09:42:48 · answer #7 · answered by little_beth85 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes often. Then I try to figure out if i'm thinking that because life sometimes is far from beautiful, or because i don't appreciate what i've got.
2006-08-29 23:30:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Family, friends, love, nature, travelling, languages, music, answers, freedom...there are lots of beautiful things in life. We just focus on the ugly sometimes.
2006-08-25 09:39:57 · answer #9 · answered by interpreters_are_hot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find myself more often captivated by beauty than wondering where the beauty is.
2006-08-25 09:45:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋